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Day 1: The GMAT Mindset + CR Basics
Statement: In Lalaland every man above the age of 18 can vote.
Which ALL of the following can you infer about people from Lalaland?
- Mac is 34. Therefore Mac can vote.
- No one below the age of 18 can vote.
- No man below the age of 18 can vote.
- There are possibly some men older than 18 who cannot vote.
- If someone can vote, that person must be a man above the age of 18.
- If someone cannot vote, that person must be a woman.
- If someone cannot vote, that person must be a woman, or a man who’s 18 or younger.
- Some people cannot vote.
- Most people can vote.
- Many people can vote.
- Either a person can vote, or the person is a man 18 or younger.
Answer: 7.
Statement: If it rains, I carry an umbrella.
Which ALL of the following can be inferred?
- It it doesn’t rain, I do not carry an umbrella.
- If I am carrying an umbrella, it must be raining.
- If I am not carrying an umbrella, it must not be raining.
Answer: 3
For all drills, please answer in the comments section in this format: <Name of Drill>: <Your answer>
e.g. Inference Drill 1: 1, 5, 8.
Good points, guys. Let’s take them up today start of our session.
Hi Guys! 🙂
ID 1: I don’t get why 3 is incorrect and 7 is correct! i mean correctly or incorrectly inferred.
Can someone throw please some light?
Could you please explain how 10 can be inferred? It’s possible that Lalaland has only 1 man above the age of 18 years old.
Also, isn’t 7th a bit ambiguous? It does not clarify if we’re talking about (men + women) =<18 or women + men =<18
Hey Rishabh : My 2 bits for discussion.
You are right that ‘many’ sounds as more than 1. But have a look at this discussion (https://www.beatthegmat.com/is-most-many-words-are-equivalent-t-t8823.html) . It says many can mean 1 as well.
I had a doubt in the inference drill 1.
The answers given on the page are 7 and 10.
The statement given is: In Lalaland every man above the age of 18 can vote.
Option 7 says that if someone cannot vote, they must be either a woman or a man who’s 18 or younger.
I don’t understand how we can infer this from the given statement. The statement merely says that all men above 18 can vote. It doesn’t provide any information about who cannot vote. Also, it says ‘every man’, it doesn’t say that ‘only’ men above 18 can vote.
According to me the answer should be 10 only.
Could you please clarify this doubt?
Inference drill 1: 1, 3, 8,
Inference drill 2: 1
DRILL – 1. NONE
DRILL – 2. 3
Inference 1 – None
Inference 2 – 3
In my opinion,
1 could have been inferred if we were informed that Mac is a man.
7 could have been inferred if we had a comma after ‘woman’.
Inference drill 1: 4 and 10
Inference drill 2: None
Inference 1 – 3,8
Inference 2 – 2
Inference Drill 1: 1,3,4
Inference Drill 2: none
Inference 1 – 3,8
Inference 2 – 2
Inference drill 1 : 1
Inference drill 2: 3
Drill 1-3
Drill 2-2,3
Inference Drill 1: 3
Inference Drill 2: 3
Inference drill 1 : 1
Inference drill 2: 3